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[Phil Powell]

If $val is the following:

...Just revamped the site's Content Management Application I built.. so do
bear in mind.. sorry!

Phil


stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($val)) should produce the following, or so I
thought:

<input type=hidden name=alert value="...Just revamped the site's Content
Management Application I built.. so do bear in mind..
sorry!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Phil">

Instead, I get:

<input type=hidden name=alert value="...Just revamped the site\'s Content
Management Application I built.. so do bear in mind.. sorry!

Phil">

What combo of stripslashes() and htmlspecialchars() do I use to ensure I get
a single-line entity from an HTML textarea value that could have anything in
it, plain and simple?

Phil